Ermengarde or Erembourg of Maine, also known as Erembourg de la Flèche (died 1126), was Countess of Maine and the Lady of Château-du-Loir

Château-du-Loir

Château-du-Loir is a commune in the Sarthe department in the Pays de la Loire region in north-western France.-References:*...

 from 1110 to 1126. She was the daughter of Elias I of Maine

Elias I of Maine

Elias I , called de la Flèche or de Baugency, was the Count of Maine from 1093. He was the son of the lord of La Flèche, John de Beaugency, and his wife Paula, daughter of Herbert I, Count of Maine....

, Count of Maine, and Mathilda of Château-du-Loire.

In 1109 she married Fulk V of Anjou

Fulk of Jerusalem

Fulk , also known as Fulk the Younger, was Count of Anjou from 1109 to 1129, and King of Jerusalem from 1131 to his death...

, thereby finally bringing Maine

Maine (province)

Le Maine is one of the traditional provinces of France . It corresponds to the old county of Maine, with its center, the city of Le Mans.-Location:...

 under Angevin

Anjou

Anjou is a former county , duchy and province centred on the city of Angers in the lower Loire Valley of western France. It corresponds largely to the present-day département of Maine-et-Loire...

 control. She gave birth to:

• Geoffrey V, Count of Anjou
  Geoffrey V, Count of Anjou
  Geoffrey V , called the Handsome and Plantagenet, was the Count of Anjou, Touraine, and Maine by inheritance from 1129 and then Duke of Normandy by conquest from 1144...
  
   (d. 1151)
• Elias II of Maine
  Elias II of Maine
  Elias was the younger son of Fulk V of Anjou and his first wife, Eremburga, daughter of Elias I of Maine. There is debate as to whether he was ever count of Maine....
  
   (d. 1151)
• Matilda of Anjou (d. 1154), who married William Adelin
  William Adelin
  William , surnamed Adelin , was the son of Henry I of England by his wife Matilda of Scotland, and was thus heir-apparent to the throne. His early death without issue caused a succession crisis.William was born in Winchester...
  
  , the son and heir to Henry I of England
  Henry I of England
  Henry I was the fourth son of William I of England. He succeeded his elder brother William II as King of England in 1100 and defeated his eldest brother, Robert Curthose, to become Duke of Normandy in 1106...
  
  
• Sibylla of Anjou
  Sibylla of Anjou
  Sibylla of Anjou was a daughter of Fulk V of Anjou and Ermengarde of Maine, and wife of William Clito and Thierry, Count of Flanders....
  
   (d. 1165), married in 1121 to William Clito
  William Clito
  William Clito was the son of Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy, by his marriage with Sibylla of Conversano...
  
  , and then (after an annulment in 1124) to Thierry, Count of Flanders
  Thierry, Count of Flanders
  Thierry of Alsace , in Flanders known as Diederik van den Elzas, was count of Flanders from 1128 to 1168. He was the youngest son of Duke Thierry II of Lorraine and Gertrude of Flanders...
  
  

She died in 1126, on either the 15th January or the 12 October. After her death, Fulk left his lands to their son Geoffrey, and set out for the Holy Land

Holy Land

The Holy Land is a term which in Judaism refers to the Kingdom of Israel as defined in the Tanakh. For Jews, the Land's identifiction of being Holy is defined in Judaism by its differentiation from other lands by virtue of the practice of Judaism often possible only in the Land of Israel...

, where he married Melisende of Jerusalem

Melisende of Jerusalem

Melisende was Queen of Jerusalem from 1131 to 1153, and regent for her son between 1153 and 1161 while he was on campaign. She was the eldest daughter of King Baldwin II of Jerusalem, and the Armenian princess Morphia of Melitene. She was named after her paternal grandmother, Melisende of...

 and became King of Jerusalem

Kings of Jerusalem

This is a list of kings of Jerusalem, from 1099 to 1291, as well as claimants to the title up to the present day.-Kings of Jerusalem :...

.

External links

• Eremburge de la Flèche (in French)